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Charles Glover Barkla
1917 Nobel Prize winner for Physics
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Max Born
Key developer of quantum mechanics
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The Edinburgh Seven
Britain’s first female medical students
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James Cossar Ewart
The UK’s first experimental animal breeder since Charles Darwin
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Archibald Findlay
Geneticist who invented first blight-resistant potato
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Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Botanist, Arctic explorer and documentor of Inuit life
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Charles Lapworth
Pioneer of faunal analysis using index fossils
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Murdoch Mackenzie
Cartographer and hydrographer, whose maritime maps of the Orkney islands are still in use
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John Muir
Founder of modern conservation and inspiration behind the first national parks
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John Rae
Orcadian surgeon who explored parts of Northern Canada
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David Robertson
'The Cumbrae Naturalist'
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Mary Somerville
Astronomer, scientist and polymath, known as ‘the queen of science’